In the morning we made a smoothie, Skyped with my parents, left video messages for Tia and Oma, and played with his Cheerio book (where you use actual Cheerios to complete the pictures).
We then left for Sinnaedong Park, two stops south and east of us. We’ve been there a couple times before, most recently on May 20th (http://thisisourblog.net/thisisourblog/2015/5/20/wednesday-sinnae-park).
We set up by the playgrounds but ended up ignoring them completely. We ended up playing with a set of drinking fountains for awhile, then went over by the floor fountain and snacked and played (he was really into climbing on the bench) and used the hose.
We then walked up to where we had seen the tadpoles to look for frogs. No luck, but August was chanting ‘Gaegul, Gaegul’ and as we walked back along the stream he would point and say ‘gaegul’ or ‘lizard’.
We went back to the fountain and watched them turn it on and work on cleaning it out. After ten minutes or so it was still spraying full strength and August was telling me he was tired and done so we left.
I held him so he wouldn’t just fall asleep in the backpack. This worked. He actually say by himself a bit on the subway, and I kept him awake until we were right across the street from home and he fell asleep in my arms. Less than 5 minutes later I had him laying on the bed asleep. This is only the second time since we’ve been back that I’ve gotten him to take a nap in bed.
He slept for nearly two hours. I had left the door open because I didn’t want him to be hot, so when he woke up he just climbed off the bed and came out to me. He almost immediately wanted to play by the sink. While there he made a pretend smoothie by filling empty milk cartons and pouring them in the blender, putting on the lid and making a ‘grrrrr’ noise. He also used the sponge to clean a bowl and the counter.
We then went out to the park (after a quick walk through of the grocery store for teriyaki sauce). He was clingy for the first 25 minutes. Got down a little at the dinosaurs and near them, but wouldn’t walk anywhere. We went over by the fountain by the stage and played there for about an hour. Mainly with the tennis ball. Throwing it back and forth, him throwing it in the bushes so I have to get it (this has been a game for quite awhile), and throwing it under a banner, which he would then go under, retrieve the ball, come back, and repeat the process.
While there, I met a woman, Eun He, who had a 5 year old and 23 month old.
Carly found us there on her way home and we went home together.
In the evening he ate a lot of spaghetti (and sauce and veggies from a spoon), I made a game of ‘throwing’ him around the bed while singing ‘baa baa’, we played on the piano (and I started to use his fingers a bit), we found out you can request Siri to play sounds, so we had fun with that, he took an awkward roll off the couch, I piled blocks on him while he lay on the floor, and he got to skype with Tia and Colin. All that and he fell asleep a little before 9.
Park:
Looking for frogs (gaeguli):
Watching the fountain:
After his nap:
In the park:
Evening:
